YouTube

I picked a music clip, "Everything I do,I do it for you" by Brian Adams because it was my wedding song and I love it, also because my favourite movie is Robin Hood which the video clip previews. Cool!!!

I was not fond of the Questionable material on the site, especially for children, but on the other hand where was a lot of interesting material that I would not have expected on the site. Such as conferences and old commercials.

It may be useful for libraries in communicating ideas and/or instructional information on their websites. Or it could be useful to post conferences that people are unable to attend so that interested parties could still have access to the conference video at a time that was more suitible to them.

A very useful tool.

Everything I do, I do it for you

Create a cartoon

Relay for Life

Fight for a good cause. Join the fight against cancer. Participate in relay for life this year in your area.

Keukenhoff, Holland

Keukenhoff slideshow

http://www.flickr.com/photos/panda11/favorites/show/?no_back=1

Cataloguing policy presentation

Zoho Writer

Zoho writer was very easy to use to publish a post. Features that a I liked are the templates for a speech outline and a fact sheet. Very useful and easy to use. I aim to have more of a play with Zoho show and use it to prepare an online presentation that will demonstrate basic concepts and procedures of cataloguing.

Understanding MARC Bibliographic

Understand what a MARC record is and why it is important. And learn where to locate the MARC 21 reference materials at the Library of Congress site.

http://www.loc.gov/marc/


Copyright ©2003 The Library of Congress, except within the U.S.A.(Credit must be given when excerpting from this publication). For permission to translate, excerpt, or adapt this publication, contact the Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC Standards Office (ndmso@loc.gov).
Understanding MARC Bibliographic was a copyrighted work originally published by the Follett Software Co. in 1988. Other previous editions are the following: second edition, 1989; third edition, 1990; fourth edition, 1994; fifth edition, 1998; sixth edition, 2000.

Cataloguing principles and practices

My aim is to design a course that covers all of the basic concepts and procedures of cataloguing for staff new to our cataloguing department. Linking their training to our organisational practices.

Outcomes

• identification of the tools we use for cataloguing
• understanding the goals of the cataloguing record
• understanding of the basic principles of descriptive cataloguing, MARC format and subject analysis

Topics covered

• purpose and functions of the catalogue record (cataloguing policy)
• basics of bibliographic description using AACR2
• construction of Library of Congress Subject Headings
• introduction to the MARC format (via Library of congress)
• purpose and function of authority control in an online catalogue
• bibliographic utilities and other sources of catalogue records
• workflow in the cataloguing department

Tools

• online tutorials
• tools found in Learning 2.0
• exercises
• demonstrations

Web 2.0 Directory

Web tools

Biblio is a very useful site for locating a variety of books. Search for out-of-print books from independent booksellers and buy them.

Lulu looks very useful as a self publishing site with lots of useful publishing tools on it. Especially liked the look of the comic book creator. Could also be useful for family history publishing. Such a lot of people that come to our library are writing their own family histories and would find this tool particularly interesting. The training manuals would be useful for publishing documents for libraries, even perhaps for annual reports. The calanders and photo books would be great for christmas presents.

PLCMCLearning Wiki

This was very easy to use. By far the most simple thing that I have been asked to do. These tools are all proving to have very useful applications. I am even locating resources and information that I am finding useful for my everyday tasks. Thank-you!

Wiki

I liked the SJCPL subject guides reference desk. I will bookmark it for later reference as I find that resources that are useful on the reference desk are always appreciated. I can see that wikis would be very useful for a reference librarian in sharing information that has been requested, either as a current fad or for regularly asked questions and resources on family history.

I could also see it as a teaching tool for say a cataloguer to share information on tools, current practices and new policies. Perhaps an extension of a cataloguing meetings and training.

http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page

Web 2.0, Library 2.0

The task of a librarian is to be ever multiskilled and the tools that I am learning about are definately changing the way we locate and communicate information. We are shifting into a new world of librarianship where we not only need to keep ahead of where information is in traditional forms but all the varied ways technology and it's tools can help us to retrieve and send information. The fact that there is just so many of these tools and so many different ways to use them is just overwelming.

del.icio.us

I have joined up but have to explore more of this site. I am interested in which i would prefer to use, Furl or de.licio.us, to have access to my bookmarks.


http://del.icio.us/

http://www.furl.net

Technorati

It would seem that more accurate results are recieved by using tags rather than the thousands of results retrieved with key word searching in a blog. Useful for a cataloguer.

http://www.technorati.com/

My library thing

A very useful tool. I will use it to locate and store books that I would like to acquire.

http://www.librarything.com/

Image generators

I liked the big huge labs calander creator for creating christmas presents. http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/calendar.php


I also liked the Web 2.0 Logo creator.

http://h-master.net/web2.0/index.php